Why has my doctor ordered a PET/CT?

Doctors use PET and CT scans to look inside patients’ bodies so they can diagnose a range of health conditions, including cancer, poor blood flow, and brain abnormalities. Both are non-invasive options that give doctors a lot of diagnostic information. Although the two types of scans differ in some ways, they are very similar from […]

We Have The Answer If you have been wanting to know What Does Diagnostic Imaging Mean?, we are here to answer that question for you. Diagnostic imaging, also known as medical imaging, is the use of electromagnetic radiation to produce images of internal body structures for diagnosis. There are an array of machines, which include X-rays and […]

Holding Still as Your Only Challenge What’s it like to have a CT scan? If you’ve never had a CT scan before, it’s a very painless process that doctors may not want to give you often, but are usually necessary to get a clearer image of inside your body. Some illnesses (like cancers) can sometimes […]

How Glendale MRI Institute Put My Mind At Ease Now and then, we hear from some of our patients about their experience with Glendale MRI Institute. Sometimes when patients come to us for important tests, such as CT scans and lung cancer screening, they do so with a lot of nervousness about their results. It’s a […]

CT Scans Aren’t a Substitute for Quitting The U.S. Preventative Services Task Force came out with its own CT and lung cancer screening guidelines recently. They recommend annual low-dose CT scans for people between the ages of 55-80 who have a smoking history of at least 30 “pack-years” and who either currently smoke or have […]

What Does the Science Say? According to the Mayo Clinic using a CT for lung cancer screening reduced lung cancer deaths among smokers. This was the finding of the National Lung Screening Trial that finished in 2010, The trial compared chest x rays with low dose helical CT scans of the lungs of about 54,000 […]